Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1887-07-07

Cherries are now on deck at 10 cents
| per quart.
Children's day in the Sunday! schools
here was not observed this year.
Geo. c. Cameron, of Almont. is in
this village at present on business.
Miss Elliott, of Grant, is visiting her
sister. Mrs. p McDougall at present.
Miss Dora Manson. of Strathroy,
Ont, is the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Jas.
| Wallace.
Lo Hall, of Alpena, visited with
his parents and other friends in this vi
cinity the Fourth.
Miss Cora Finlayson who has been
in Port Huron for some time is now at
her home in this village.
A delightful shower visited this
place on Saturday last, causing decid-
ed change III temperature.
Our farmers are busily engaged gath
ering in their hay crop. Next on deck
will be to harvest their grain.
Harry Bradbeer and family, of Fort
Gratiot. are the guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
ID. NJ. Church at the American House.
Chas. V. High closed a successful
term of school in the township of Ira
last Friday and is now home for vaca-
ton.
We return thanks to +. +. Brooks,
now at BeSsemer looking after his in
terests there. for late papers of that
town.
Mrs. p. ID. Leonard, Day Gordon,
wife. child and mother, of Detroit. are
guests Of Mr. and Mrs. II. 7. Leonard
at present.
NeWlove GOodin. who at one time
| owned a grocery store in this village,
but now of Chicago, spent the Fourth
in this village.
Marshal Gillian made u number of
arrests on the Fourth, and one on the
! Fifth. We haven't heard Of any one Of
them coming to trial as yet.
!. ~ Morrill, has returned to his
home in this place from his trip to
the Georgian Bay country. lie has
been rather under the weather the past
few days.
Dave Menerey former attache of
the EXPOSITOR. but now of the Mid
land city Republican, visited with his
| parents west of here and other friends
in this vicinity on the Fourth.
Mrs. Gustavis Kimall, and son. of
| Delaware, Ohio, are the guests of RObt.
Guy at present. Mr. Kimball, who is
now teaching at Somerset, Ohio, is eX-
pected here in about five weeks.
The poems in the July number of
LippincOtt's will be, contributed by
Thomas Nelson Page, Robert Burns
! Wilson. Maurice +. Egan. and Charles
". Coleman, Jr.,-a goodly array of
names.
The Office of the Bell Telephone Co.
in this place has been changed from w
y. McKenna's to {. \. Wells Il Co. S
drug store. The change was made on
account of Mr.. McKenna being one of
the stockholders in the new line.
Ye editors table was furnished with
a dish of radishes from the garden of
Joseph Effrick. They were the finest
we have eaten this season. Mr.. Effrick
intends another year to furnish the
whole town with green stuff and we
trust he may make success of 1t.
Oh. the flies! the horrible flies, buzz
ing around like election lies; lodging
about like maniac'S dream, over the
butter and into the cream; holding con-
ventiOns all over the bread, biting your
ears and tickling your head. crawling,
buZzing, too busy TO die,-dog gone the
nasty pestiferous flies.
j. :. Dufiie now wears handsome
pair of gold bowed spectacles, a pres
ent from the young people Of the Fifth
Ward Sunday School. Mr.. Duflie has
been the superintendent of the school
since its organization. and is held in
much esteem by the scholars. who have
taken this method Of showing their APP
probation of him as a superintendent.
Pt. Huron Daily Times.
4 Connecticut electrician has a new
rat trap. which. it is said works admir-
ably. lie attaches piece Of meat to
one pole of a dynamo machine. which
can only be reached by the rat by stand
ing on plate which serves as the Other
pole. Report says that no rat has yet
got the meat but many have reached
Tor 1t, and the inventor is rewarded fol
his ingenuity with large collection OF
dead rats.
An exchange publishes the following
bit Of truth: whenever You hear 3
man sneering at a country newspaper
set him down as n donkey, who brayed
in mortar. would still be the same
Some country newspapers are pitifu
enough but most OF them are as good
as circumstances will permit. and dc
more for their own town than all the
GROWERS from lBeesheba to Botany Bay
You can not print a million dollar
! newspaper in n ten cent town. and in
the end the publisher of u country
newspaper does more work and gives
more for the money than amy class OF
workers We know Of. The country
press exerts n wide influence and is one
of the great forces IN ihis country